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Argobba

Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people
Class type of: Amharic–Argobba Q29292

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Ethiopia[2]
Subclass of
Amharic–Argobba[4]
Ethnologue language status
4 Educational[11]
Indigenous to
Afar Region, Amhara Region, Addis Ababa[8][9][10]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+43700[6]
UNESCO language status
5 critically endangered[7]
Writing system
Geʽez script[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Argobba en Argobba language ar اللغة الأرغوبية ar الأرغوبية ar لغة أرغوبية ar أرغوبية fi argobban kieli he ארגובית he ארגובה it lingua argobba ja アルゴッバ語 pl język argobba pt Língua argobba ru Аргобба tr agj tr Argobba dili uk Арґобба
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85007106
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294899081
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
135102575
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
3685
Ethnologue.com language code
agj
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/0618tx
Glottolog code
argo1244
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
argobba
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0080397
IETF language tag
agj
ISO 639-3 code
agj
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National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007295520405171
Topic's main category
Category:Argobba language
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
88
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Language", "Argobba::nx7z9"], Entity["Language", "Argobba"]
Yale LUX ID
concept/17452b2a-f1a9-48e7-a080-affcd03a6c5a

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 3
Addis Ababa, Afar Region, Amhara Region
← Language used 3
Ethiopia, Afar Region, Amhara Region
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Country 1
Ethiopia
Topic's main category 1
Category:Argobba language
Writing system 1
Geʽez script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Argobba language
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Summary

Argobba is a language[1].

Related Entities

Addis Ababa Ethiopia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Ethiopia
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Afar Region, Amhara Region, Addis Ababa
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007295520405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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